Re: Is the OSL DFSG free?

[Keith Dunwoody <kstephen@interchange.ubc.ca>]

Glenn Maynard wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 10:59:04AM +0200, Keith Dunwoody wrote:
>
> > I think this is the link:  Some people (software companies) prefer not to 
> > license their code under the GPL, therefore they reject using GPL'd code. 
> > Other people prefer to not wear clothes, therefore they reject free 
> > t-shirts.
>
>
> No.  Proprietary software authors don't not use GPL code because they
> prefer not to.  They don't use it because the GPL prohibits them from
> doing so.  Free t-shirts are irrelevant.  The GPL very deliberately
> discriminates against proprietary software, in the interests of free
> software.  We just can't read DFSG#6 that broadly.

I'm not going to argue over a comparison I didn't make myself.  You said that 
the comparison made no sense at all, and so I was just providing a way you 
could link software & t-shirts -- not to endorse that view.  But like other 
people have said, DFSG#6 obviously can't be applied to _every_ possible group. 
After all, are we going to stop distributing software which doesn't run under 
Windows because it discriminates against Windows users?

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